Posts Tagged ‘cooperative learning’
December 8 - Critical Pedagogy Brings New Teaching and Learning Challenges
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
It’s not always easy to differentiate between critical pedagogy, active learning, and the learner- or learning-centered approaches. Each is predicated on the notion of student engagement and proposes involvement via such strategies as collaborative and cooperative learning and problem-based learning. All recommend a move away from lecturing. Critical pedagogy is the most extreme of the
January 23 - Effective Group Work Strategies for the College Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Instructional Design
From understanding course content to developing problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills, group work is an effective teaching strategy whose lessons may endure well beyond the end of a course. So why is it that so many students (and some faculty) hate it?
